Irina Vaahtera. -Pasi Kangas from Finlayson, you have a minute?
Sure. -Sadly we can't hire you as planned.
Thanks for the info.
We made an error in calculations. We're sorry and wish-
Companies buy resources cheaper from abroad.
Simply put, what are production costs?
Irina, earth calling.
I don't know.
Try. -What's this got to do with anything?
That's what we're trying to find out.
You want to know what I think about production costs?
Yes.
They're shit.
What's the value if people are unhappy?
Shouldn't the point be we would feel better?
No long days with a shit pay and more time to do things we like.
This society steals our freedom and loops us into an endless rat-race.
Why suffer whole lives so we can enjoy last breaths as pensioners?
There's no guarantee we'll have air or water to live in ten years.
Right.
"Eat shit."
Stop blaming yourself.
Take the summer job and find yourself a cute fling.
They cancelled the whole thing. -No way.
Now I can't pay the rent and guess many jobs are out there?
Even if that asshole is a rockstar he's got responsibilities too.
Apparently not. -Stop with the self-pity.
You should do something totally different.
Go crazy and visit home or something.
We'll manage the rent.
How? -I'll help if nothing else.
Thank you.
Just promise to do something with your life.
That monkey needs a lesson.
I did throw him out. -You're kidding?
I've only witnessed you fuck around.
Why should I waste my best years in this? Tell me.
Please, tell me why.
I'm tired of playing games.
This relationship is a fucking joke.
You have that had self-esteem you have to put up a show? -I guess.
Do whatever you want. I won't stop you anymore.
"Are you exhausted? Do you need ease to your everyday life?
Welcome to Kyrsyä where nature and loved ones are close by."
Are you fucking serious? -Yes.
You don't need to go to some Kyrpiä if your relationship is over.
It's Kyrsyä. -Whatever.
You said I need a change. That's just what I need.
I want to figure things out without shit piling around all the time.
Don't panic, I've thought this through. -Yes, I panic!
It's only a summer job. I will come back.
What job?
They need labour force for textile manufacturing.
Aha. -Something traditional, my boss will mentor me.
I can imagine. -Can you stop that?
It's sick to go live with some hillbilly just because Janne is a selfish pig!
Please, let it be. -You couldn't have changed that jerk.
Stop it!
I'm sorry.
Let me be three months alone.
Don't tell Janne, mom or anyone. Okay?
Mom's going to rip her wig apart. -Promise me.
Goddamit!
Yeah, I promise. -Thanks.
I love you.
I love you too.
Tickets, please.
Nice catch. -You think?
Hello and farewell beforehand!
Eh, hey. Hello!
Pertti. You must be the missus from south.
Yes, Irina Vaahtera.
Missus' bags. -Thank you.
Take care. -Thanks.
We still have to walk so let us go.
Is it a long way? -Ten kilometers.
And we walk?
We don't have cars. Horses we have, but they are working.
No cars in the whole village?
We have tried to manage without.
Okay.
Weird to not know where I'm coming.
There was nothing on internet and I couldn't even find a phone number.
Severi has a phone you can borrow.
I do have a phone. -Sure you do.
And a charger. You have electricity, right?
We do.
It was set up few decades ago and it works well. -Great.
You are not coming to some tuftland even though we get by with little.
Of course not.
We hunt and fish, grow potatoes and vegetables ourselves.
We try to be friendly with the mother nature.
If you want peace, it is better not to disturb her.
That's a great way to live ecologically.
We think so too.
There they are.
Hello and farewell beforehand! -Hello and farewell beforehand!
Hello and farewell beforehand!
Hello! -And farewell beforehand!
Maija Perämalkki.
Irina Vaahtera. -Wonderful to have guests.
Welcome. -Thank you.
We have men here too, but they are out hunting.
Mother.
Indeed, this is our Maaria.
She lived away for a while but grew tired of the big world.
Here is good.
I hope you enjoy it here. -I hope so too.
Finally, Siiri Peräsäisä. Are you hungry?
Sure. Can I just put my stuff somewhere first?
The bass gruel is ready now. -There is no rush.
Maaria, go show the room.
Missus does not know that in Rome you do as the Romans do?
Grandmother, it takes only a minute.
The big world did no good for her.
Let us give the quest speak. She knows what is right for her.
She does not know what is right for us.
That she will learn. -And that is good.
Nice room.
It is for us both.
ls there a socket? My phone is dead.
There.
It is good to listen and honour the elders.
How come?
They have lived longer and know how one should behave.
But the world changes all the time. -Not here.
We should go, food is ready.
Thank you a lot.
Did Irina like the room?
Yeah, it's really cozy. -You hear that grandmother?
The covers are beautiful, made with talent.
Bass gruel. -Fish caught from our pond today.
Vegetables are from our fields and all is cooked into goat milk.
Okay.
Away has stayed the man...
...who makes himself a god by defying his creator.
Thank you a lot.
Away has stayed the oppression that shatters nature's own order...
...and destroys the weak who are equally as important.
Thank you a lot.
We've had the opportunity to live as a family.
What we can't do, we don't need. -Thank you a lot.
Nature has blessed us with means for life. Means that nurture us.
Thank you a lot.
Means that preserve our village. -Thank you a lot.
Means that carry life on. -Thank you a lot.
Nicely said.
Here we thank before food.
Okay. Well, thank you a lot.
It wasn't as bad. -It is my favorite.
I liked the thanking, because it wasn't about Jesus.
People can't appreciate anything nowadays without satisfying their ego or...
...underlining their own beliefs.
Here we thank even if things come differently than in the big world.
We used to have cows in the barn. Now it is a rotten storage.
Here is our well, there our pond and sauna.
Mauno lives there. He prefers to be alone.
You still have animals? -We do.
Her name is Pörri. -Nice name.
It is.
Furry friend.
We use her wool in manufacturing.
You manage the whole line of production? -You could say.
Nice to get to work with hands.
In school we focus on theory and marketing.
I was so happy when I got the letter.
It seemed you could learn something and focus on doing here.
You did the right thing by coming here.
I think so too.
This one is different. You can tell.
How do you mean?
Sit down, there is porridge. -Okay.
You seemed tired so we let you sleep. -I can't remember when I slept so well.
What sort of family does Irina have?
Mom's a nurse in Helsinki and dad has a restaurant in Nurmijärvi.
Sister studies practical nursing in Tampere.
Everyone lives in a different place?
My parents divorced six years ago.
It is quite common nowadays.
They didn't love each other anymore.
Love does not end, it changes.
Mother found this Jouko and dad has new wife with two little boys.
We don't really see each other.
That is a shame.
You are fertile sort nevertheless?
Well, dad is at least.
You do have the same genetics.
You just eat the porridge.
Does Irina have a man?
No. -But you are nubile already.
I guess so.
Many younglings study in south before they start making babies.
We have met such younglings here.
They don't appreciate the gifts they are given.
Let us leave it to that.
What are you talking about?
We had this Hanna for a summer job.
Where's she now?
Who knows.
Men accompanied her to forest. -From there you get to the big road.
She didn't like it here by the nature? -No.
What about the textile manufacturing? I'd like to start already.
We will begin later this week.
You can go pick up mushrooms today. Maaria has other obligations.
Hilja has had a tough year. Has not fully recovered.
What happened?
Her baby got terribly ill.
Awful. -Indeed.
Let us go.
What about this one?
Poisonous, too.
What's that noise?
Men are going hunting.
That doesn't scare animals away?
It catches their attention. Then it is easier to hunt them.
Are you kidding? -No.
You really charm the animals first and then kill them?
It is more compassionate.
That works on all species? -Yes.
What can one hunt this time a year?
We have not been too strict about it.
Bears would not fall for that.
But we have good results with squirrels and hedgehogs.
What about moles?
If you cannot ask with pure heart then leave it unasked.
But the mole does taste good.
We can easily cook a stew out of these.
Can you spot the edible from the rotten?
Wrong mushrooms make you feel funny.
No worries, we have time.
Pertti is a wise man.
Little different, though.
I love this tea. What's in it?
Wild raspberries and some nettle.
Let us go heat up the sauna.
Men return soon and we have to go first.
Yeah, sure. Just a minute.
That's why you left?
I thought I knew what sort of children have the right to live.
You're joking? -No.
Was the father crazy or you didn't want to keep it?
I was afraid it would become evil like Kerttu.
It was my fault because I read her Industrializing Society.
You should've read her Survival Ethics instead.
We don't have too many books. That one we found close the big road.
I should've brought some own reading.
I have a girls' magazine. You can borrow it.
You didn't want to stay?
In the big world people don't coexist with the nature like here.
That's so true.
People don't appreciate what's around them.
Exactly.
Why did you come here?
I had to get away...
...to think things through and just be.
Long story short, boyfriend was a dick.
Hush!
Here you don't talk like that. Mauno gets excited if he hears.
Right.
ls he good looking?
He is.
What does it matter then?
He's your fuckbuddy? -Fuckbuddy?
Like a wood you can bump into?
Wood works for him, too. And has worked.
Fuck me! -Irina!
Well, I'm sorry!
I try not to excite him sexually.
Where's the factory?
Nowhere.
Where does the manufacturing happen?
Here in the village.
Weird place. -Do not say that!
What can one say? Dick is forbidden, ass is forbidden, there's no factory-
What is he doing?
Nature knows what.
Go inside, I will follow soon.
Food. -It is a raccoon.
Jalmari, be quiet. -Skin the pelt.
Let us slice it to pieces.
Food! Food!
Severi, let me. Let me do it.
Severi! -Be quiet.
Why won't you understand?
I will not. Siiri must understand.
Why not somebody else?
Why not Irina?
I do not want to go!
You understand what happens then?
I will not go.
You better go now.
Come for tea.
Have you enjoyed it here? -I have.
It is bit different here, but pleasantly peaceful.
That is good to hear.
Do you have experience in handcraft?
I study to become a textile teacher.
It is rare in the big world that one wants to work with hands.
What's in the sack? -Why don't you have a look?
Let us reel them so we can begin with the manufacturing.
These are from that Pörri sheep? -That is right.
She is a good girl at growing wool. -Apparently.
You've dyed these really well.
Here there is no rush and we can do our work well.
Hello...
...and farewell beforehand.
Irina.
Maaria will have some company.
She has a big sin to go through.
You have become cold-hearted.
Think how your grandchild suffered.
It would have suffered more alive. -Nobody knows that.
Go see for yourself if you can't remember.
Or go ask Harlot Inkeri.
What has ruined your mind?
Everyone has their task and so it has been.
It is not your task to manipulate how nature treats us.
What if it doesn't work anymore?
My goodness, what are you saying?
This moment is migratory bird's.
With one mouse it can make do.
Tries to make her dance and almost succeeds.
The mouse has a family to protect her.
A bull appears strongly. A real stud.
But the bird chooses the cold fish.
The decision is easy, since the bird does not know who is right or wrong.
A bear also appears strongly and helps with the decision-making...
...but as a whole it won't be made.
The frost drives the pig back home or a scabby dog that gives in.
What does Pertti foresee?
Anyone can leave a mark in the pure soil.
Guest is not what seems, but she leads us to change...
...and reminds of the marks in the soil.
There they are even though we cannot see them.
You cannot leave Kyrsyä.
It is a risk when we invite outsiders.
Now we know how to be careful.
Hanna got scared once we started talking babies.
We need to let Irina get used to things.
Severi will charm her.
In the end she wants to stay herself.
But she chooses the cold fish.
Pertti understands what change can bring?
Hope.
Maaria?
Irina!
Shit, I got scared. -How did you get lost?
Bad sense of direction I guess.
We should not go there.
There are bear traps.
We have everything we need.
Jalmari will handle. Will handle wood.
Have you met with Severi and Jalmari?
You could say so.
Which one is which?
Severi is the more handsome one and Jalmari has the long hair.
Why doesn't Pertti hunt with the other men?
Everyone has their own task here.
Oh, yeah? What's yours?
I am pastime responsible and a tutor for younglings.
Really? You have an education for that?
No.
I just tutor younger people.
You don't even have young people here.
Well, you are here.
Hello and farewell beforehand.
Irina. Here are Severi and Jalmari.
Well, we haven't been officially introduced.
Irina.
Severi Peräsäisä. -Jalmari.
Good to have you here. Women have become unwilling to do women's work.
Women's work?
It is their task to prepare home. -And give birth to babies.
I talk. -Okay.
I slightly disagree.
That is the truth.
Let us leave the girls and go preserve your preys.
Isn't Severi wonderful? -Absolutely.
Have you ever seen a man so beautiful, strong and tender?
And intelligent?
Why don't you hit on him?
Or Jalmari?
Come, I have a surprise for you.
The lamps are annoying.
Electricity comes slower sometimes.
Have you complained?
No use.
The electricity man does his best.
Apparently not enough.
What can you do but your best?
That must be the motto here.
How do you do things in the big world?
You educate and motivate a person.
If she doesn't do her work, you find someone who does...
...and is more willing.
If you love your work you do it well, don't you?
Most people don't do what they love.
Everybody here does.
Good for you if that's true.
It is.
Here it is enough if you do your best.
What happens in the big world if you just do you best?
Even if you quite can't get it.
Whatever.
I don't get people who expect society just provides everything.
We are responsible for ourselves.
You don't sit back and wait for something to happen.
If you want something you have to work for it.
What happens to them who can't survive without help?
They're a different thing.
There are medicines and treatments.
Worst ones get hospitalized so they don't drift among us rest.
No wonder.
What?
That elders let roads here grow wild.
Kyrsyä encloses the good.
Isn't that bit over the top?
To let roads grow wild?
Maaria?
You are really pretty.
Who are you?
Kerttu.
She meant only well.
Who? -Mother.
Where is she?
There.
Help her.
I beg you.
Help her.
I beg you.
Help her or I will kill you like she killed me!
It is big. -Sure, go on.
ls it hard? -Shut up and kneel down.
Severi will show. -He will indeed.
Where's the woman?
There it seems.
I'm mean the blonde girl's mom.
It seems you met Harlot Inkeri's late girl.
She asked for help. -Asked for help.
Sounds like late Kerttu.
Maybe Kerttu doesn't want into light...
...as too many things were left unresolved.
Wake up.
Maybe the best mother of them all drowned her own child...
...as she didn't want to push her cart anymore.
Are you trying to frighten me?
Maybe the same poor soul wants to see the mother is taught a lesson.
We tried to do the right thing.
We sure did.
Where is that Inkeri? -Who cares.
Hardly has managed to get too far.
What is Severi babbling?
I thought everything was clear.
Clear it is, but now we continue manufacturing.
Irina, come.
We take pride in our pompom manufacturing.
Have you heard about pompoms?
They make these in kindergartens. -Where?
Or in mental institutions.
What is funny? -Nothing.
It may look threads are all willy-nilly.
But if you look to core of it, you see every thread is in place.
No pompom would be perfect if it lacked a single thread.
Pompoms? Are you serious?
Irina does not understand? -No, I don't.
That is a shame.
Let the work carry you away.
Okay. So, pompom manufacturing?
You make a lot of these in a day.
Everyone makes ten an hour and we'll have a real shipment.
The more retailers the bigger profit, because this is what people want.
Let's put Kyrsyä on map!
You try to understand.
Pompom manufacturing is precious.
You take two disks and...
...bind them together like nature binds the man and the woman.
Sprouted from the loins of Kyrsyä, stemmed from the skin of Kyrsyä. -What the fuck?
You take love spun thread and run it through disks...
...like the man runs his seed through the woman.
Sprouted from the loins of Kyrsyä, stemmed from the skin of Kyrsyä.
Thread after another we bind them together...
...like we bind the soul to the righteous ground of Kyrsyä.
Irina, wait! -Pompom manufacturing!
What the fuck?! ls that your shit humor or are you fucking insane?
Calm down. -The fuck I will!
You morons think anyone sane wants to spend summer doing fucking pompoms?
Complete retard can tell the neon threads are not from Pörri!
Irina, be quiet now.
I'm soon a handcrafts professional.
I came here for real work not to do wartime toys!
Irina, please. -I'm serious, what the fuck is wrong with you?
That's not funny!
My goodness.
What is that?
Hello, beaver!
Let me go! -Mauno, stop it!
Treat! -Get off me!
Let go of her!
Treat!
Mauno!
Mauno, hands off!
Treat! Treat!
Treat!
Mauno!
Come here.
More treat!
This can't be real.
Mauno was so strong child that we put him to produce electricity.
Keeps him out of trouble.
Goddamit, you're seriously sick.
It does not make us bad.
That's it, I'm leaving. -With what?
The next bus leaves tomorrow afternoon.
With that then.
Fucking shit.
Here you are.
Mauno means no harm.
He is just different.
I'd like to be alone.
We do not let people mourn on their own.
But you do lock up retards into cellars?
It is not that simple.
Yes, it is.
He has it better here.
Let's agree on that then.
I don't think this place is for me.
You miss the big world though men are dicks out there?
Yes. -Things will work out.
Stay here. Severi will become a man for you.
You can't be serious!
I am.
Severi, show him! -Jalmari, turn him around!
Throw like that! -Roll him around!
I think those two are backdoor bandits.
What are those?
Backdoor bandit expresses sexual love with people of the same gender.
That is how it appears. -What?
Love. Here it is hard to find the right partner.
So, men are with men? -And women with women.
Women? I thought you're related.
We are all family and look after each other's needs.
There's the bus driver.
Here you have a place where you will be loved.
Irina, stay with us. Here is good.
Severi seeds you a baby and Kyrsyä will have a new beginning.
...women's task. -Give birth to babies.
...have a man? -Mauno gets excited...
...will have a new beginning. -...same genetics.
No worries, we have time.
I didn't come to fucking marry!
Are you completely crazy?! -You came for work, right?
Women's task to bear the baby. -Fucking lunatics!
Seeds my child?! You think I would put out for him?
Irina is well needed. -You should be in a nuthouse.
Why? -Because this is against all ethics.
People are suffering! -Who is suffering? Mauno?
How is he suffering? -He needs treatment!
He has it better here.
if people knew those things would not be born!
Nature knows what it does. -You'll be held responsible!
At some point this will end. The family strain is so bad.
Until then we want to be left alone.
You have no right to live like this.
We take care of each other. -You have no understanding of life!
"Textile manufacturing," hypocrisy and incest, abuse and hiding of retards!
You eat moles!
We meant only good.
Severi does not touch. -Everything was supposed to be clear.
Severi realizes that an outsider may not understand what gift Kyrsyä is.
Pertti foresaw this.
If Irina does not want to stay she does not.
What are you still waiting?
You are seriously letting her go?
Everyone knows why she was brought here!
Why won't anybody do anything?
Irina, stay with us.
Here it is better.
Treat.
Treat!
That way!
Numher you dialed cannot he reached... -Hurry up!
Please, try again later. -Faster!
Did not work on Severi's girl. -Shut your mouth.
Severi does not get treat, because he can't chant.
Severi hit. -Yes, he did.
She is going towards the cold fish.
Why do you stand here then, Pellervo? -No-no, you can't go there.
Damn morons.
Severi!
Does not leave!
(Hey!)
(Stop it!)
Hello and farewell beforehand.
Who are you?
Hanna does not remember her own people?
How is life in Kyrsyä?
Where are your eyes?
Sometimes you think you know better.
Kerttu was taken away too.
Severi said you killed her.
In the spirit world Kerttu is perfect.
I thought everybody's equal here.
Her feet were flawed.
Fingers were webbed and she lacked an eye.
Everything was fine until she learnt to speak.
She began to belittle farming and claim there were better ways to do pompoms.
Demanded us to build a machine and do shifts.
To grow them up good, you nurture crops with joy and children with love.
How can child say such things?
Maaria provoked her by reading false teachings.
Industrializing Society?
She picked up things and claimed we needed to be more efficient.
Humiliated men for how they found livelihood.
She insisted us to hunt more and faster, more and faster.
You had to push her cart everywhere because she wanted to boss around.
She would not accept all is pointless if you don't know what you are doing.
She preached about development but forgot why to develop.
Even though wrong, I did Kyrsyä a great service.
Others don't agree.
They think Kerttu came to show how life can be wasted.
Jalmari, this way! Hurry up!
Why are men out hunting this time? -Jalmari, catch her!
Catch her! Catch her!
They got mad at me.
We don't get mad. -They think I know where Irina is.
The new girl. She needs to make Severi a baby.
Everyone wants to make him a baby. -They'll hurt me.
Men hurt nobody here. -I'll talk to Severi about you.
You will? -Yes, just help me!
Jalmari will handle. -Be quiet.
Harlot. You murdered that by drowning too?
What do you want, Severi?
Are you looking for Hanna? -She has been taken care of.
We are after Irina.
Threatens to send persecutors to Kyrsyä.
I have seen no Irina.
Harlot is trying to be funny?
You were once a pretty lady.
Pity your soul is rotten. -Let me come home.
Your eyes were not good for scavengers and they the are window to one's soul.
They pecked them out nevertheless. -Animals do not mistake ever.
I let Kerttu go for Kyrsyä.
She wanted to destroy the village!
If you were pure your eyes would have been eaten.
That way nature spots the pure from the impure. -Now they will do.
Someone will eat them for sure.
If you see Irina, bring her to village. She will make me a baby.
Can I come home then? -I don't know.
Harlot is impure. -Shhh!
Will not do for the pure.
You have a pheasant, Harlot?
Severi.
Severi!
You look! The nature forgives.
If you find Irina, bring her back.
I am sure we can figure things out.
Severi!
Now help me find that Irina! They are after her, not you.
Why would you help them? They hate you!
They love me, waited for me to understand.
They'll kill you if you go back!
No, they will forgive me.
Irina is our homecoming gift. -What will happen to her?
She will make Severi a baby. -Will she be let go then?
Severi said she will send persecutors.
What if she changed her mind?
So? -You believe a person can change.
Only through experience. -First you frighten and then can change?
Why do you care about her destiny?
I want to know what happens if she gives birth and still wants out.
Tongue has to be cut. If she can't talk she will be quiet.
Of course. Otherwise she could have Kyrsyä destroyed.
The bear.
ls it coming this way?
It has gotten scent on Irina.
It can spot the pure from the impure? -I hope she stays downwind.
Do you hope she will survive? -Harder to carry her back as a corpse.
It is heading south.
To the big road. That is where Irina would go.
That is close. I will pee, then we will go.
Hello? -Hanna.
Good joke, I called Irina. -She is headed towards the big road.
What are you monkeying around? -She needs to be stopped.
What? Why?
Severi will make a baby with her... -What are you talking?
...for Kyrsyä. -Irina! What's going on there?
I'll come get you home from that fucking Kyrsyä.
What was that? Irina, answer me!